Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. April 27, 2012.
The bills are finally being recognized as targeting the most downtrodden and disadvantaged -- the poor, the sick, the jobless -- in the guise of helping them.
New regulations would give nearly 2 million home-care workers, most of whom are women and many women of color, wage and hour protections for the first time.
Many public employees have been advised that if they don't get out quickly, they stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in benefits they were counting on for retirement.
Pay in the private sector has been stagnant or falling for decades, health insurance coverage has been dropping, and traditional pensions have all but disappeared.
The image of the overpaid public sector worker with fat retirement benefits offers a compelling storyline for the Right. But it's a complete fabrication.
The benefits of unionization: Immigrant workers who are able to bargain collectively earn more and are more likely to have benefits associated with good jobs.
Andrea Buffa, Kathleen Maclay, AlterNet. December 6, 2007.
Contrary to the cries of Big Business's Chicken Littles, public interest regulations that help workers get out from under the "Wal-Mart Model" of working in poverty don't hit consumers hard.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. October 2, 2007.
The brief national strike against America's biggest automaker has a good bit to tell us about the gap that divides the awesomely affluent in the United States from everyone else.
Jennifer Armstrong, Sirens Magazine. May 19, 2007.
Sure, our health care system is messed up. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be taking full advantage of your own plan's benefits. Here are five goodies you should know about.
